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Coventry: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Coventry City Council: Metropolitan district (unitary), England, West Midlands; part of the WMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E08000026.

Council website · Publication scheme · Disclosure log

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Council tax

Band D set by Coventry for 2026–27: £2,186.40 of a £2,516.72 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

  • Woodfield — open, but proposed to close; reason recorded: for academy; proposed date 31 October 2026
  • Woodfield — proposed to open; reason recorded: new provision; proposed date 1 November 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s table has no figures for Coventry for 2026–27: “RA return not received in time for publication.” The table

Coventry in numbers

Official statistics for the whole council area. Each figure is the latest published, with the period it covers.

Total population
369,026 people 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMid-year estimate of the total number of people
Median age
34 years 30 June 2024 · Office for National StatisticsMedian age of people
Gross disposable household income per head
£19,773 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage income per person (£) after taxes and direct benefits
Gross median weekly pay
£648 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsGross median weekly pay based on where people live (£)
Children in relative poverty after housing costs
32.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsPercentage of children aged under 16 living in relative low income families After Housing Costs (AHC)
Claimant Count
5.5% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsPercentage of people aged 16 to 64 who are claiming unemployment-related benefits
Average house price
£227,679 July 2026 · HM Land RegistryAverage monthly price of a property (£)
Housing affordability ratio (residence-based)
6.0 affordability ratio 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsRatio of median house price to median gross annual residence-based earnings
Female healthy life expectancy
58.9 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for females born in the given year
Male healthy life expectancy
59.2 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage years expected to be lived in good health for males born in the given year
Greenhouse gas emissions
3.3 tCO2e per capita 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroGreenhouse gas emissions (tCO2e) per capita
Gigabit capable broadband
97.7% 1 January 2026 · OfcomPercentage of premises that have coverage from a gigabit-capable service (download speeds of 1,000 Mbps or more)
Public electric vehicle chargers
716.5 per 100,000 population 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublicly available electric vehicle chargers at all speeds per 100,000 people
Active businesses
11,290 number of enterprises 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with turnover or employment in current year

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

54 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 24, Reform UK 20, Conservative and Unionist 6, Green Party (E&W) 4.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 54 councillors, by ward
  • Jamie Fearn (Reform UK) — Bablake
  • Jennifer Wells (Reform UK) — Bablake
  • Lisa Boyle (Reform UK) — Bablake
  • Jennifer Odje (Reform UK) — Binley & Willenhall
  • Marcus Fogden (Reform UK) — Binley & Willenhall
  • Paul Cowley (Reform UK) — Binley & Willenhall
  • Barbara Mosterman (Conservative and Unionist) — Cheylesmore
  • Richard Brown (Labour Party) — Cheylesmore
  • Roger Bailey (Conservative and Unionist) — Cheylesmore
  • Antony Tucker (Labour Party) — Earlsdon
  • Kindy Sandhu (Labour Party) — Earlsdon
  • Lynnette Kelly (Labour Party) — Earlsdon
  • Abdul Khan (Labour Party) — Foleshill
  • Habib Rehman (Labour Party) — Foleshill
  • Shakila Nazir (Labour Party) — Foleshill
  • Alistair Cole (Reform UK) — Henley
  • Ed Ruane (Labour Party) — Henley
  • Mel Gregory (Reform UK) — Henley
  • Esther Reeves (Green Party (E&W)) — Holbrooks
  • Stephen Gray (Green Party (E&W)) — Holbrooks
  • Tom Jewell (Green Party (E&W)) — Holbrooks
  • Amor Albert (Reform UK) — Longford
  • George Duggins (Labour Party) — Longford
  • Linda Bigham (Labour Party) — Longford
  • John McNicholas (Labour Party) — Lower Stoke
  • Rupinder Singh (Labour Party) — Lower Stoke
  • Shahnaz Akhter (Labour Party) — Lower Stoke
  • Angela Hopkins (Labour Party) — Radford
  • Mal Mutton (Labour Party) — Radford
  • Patricia Hetherton (Labour Party) — Radford
  • Charles Phillips (Reform UK) — Sherbourne
  • Daniel Stainton (Reform UK) — Sherbourne
  • Jackie Gardiner (Reform UK) — Sherbourne
  • Matt Greenhalgh (Green Party (E&W)) — St Michael's
  • Naeem Akhtar (Labour Party) — St Michael's
  • Sanjida Jobbar (Labour Party) — St Michael's
  • Marcus Lapsa (Reform UK) — Tile Hill & Canley
  • Steven Keough (Reform UK) — Tile Hill & Canley
  • William Davies (Reform UK) — Tile Hill & Canley
  • Amirjit Kaur (Labour Party) — Upper Stoke
  • Gurdev Hayre (Labour Party) — Upper Stoke
  • Kamran Caan (Labour Party) — Upper Stoke
  • John Blundell (Conservative and Unionist) — Wainbody
  • Mattie Heaven (Conservative and Unionist) — Wainbody
  • Pratibha Reddy (Conservative and Unionist) — Wainbody
  • Jayne Innes (Labour Party) — Whoberley
  • Julie Jones (Labour Party) — Whoberley
  • Pervez Akhtar (Labour Party) — Whoberley
  • Adrian Bryant (Reform UK) — Woodlands
  • Dunc Clark (Reform UK) — Woodlands
  • Julia Lepoidevin (Conservative and Unionist) — Woodlands
  • Andrew Bullock (Reform UK) — Wyken
  • Dawn McCann (Reform UK) — Wyken
  • Frank Beechey (Reform UK) — Wyken

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

Write to your councillors → WriteToThem (mySociety) finds them from your postcode; nothing is sent through this site.

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Harvard style. Every figure on the page also names its original source, which is usually the better thing to cite.

Every council page has the same five headings in the same order. Sources are the council’s own publications and official statistics. Council list: mySociety, UK Local Authorities (CC BY 4.0) and WhatDoTheyKnow authorities (CC BY-SA 4.0); council websites, tiers and service links: GOV.UK (Open Government Licence); codes: ONS Code History Database (Open Government Licence). Corrections: hello@whatsittome.org.